The Golden Bachelor Recap: We All Turn on Gerry
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this final episode of our Golden Bachelor recap episode of The Waves, Gerry’s makes his decision but maybe loses the audience along the way.
Podcast production by Brandon Nix and Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves. This is our Golden Bachelor podcast, episode 9, |
| 0:14.0 | The Big finale. |
| 0:16.7 | Every week we've been talking about the latest episode |
| 0:19.6 | of the newest installment of The Bachelor franchise |
| 0:22.2 | and 72-year-old Gary's Quest for Love. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Shaina Roth, senior producer at Slate. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast Dating Wall Gray. |
| 0:32.0 | Now Laura, we just finished watching the finale we watched it |
| 0:37.1 | together with a group of people it was a lot of fun but I wanted to start by asking you you had not watched the |
| 0:46.7 | bachelor before this it is now over Gary's quest for love has been finished. What do you think of the bachelor and this whole |
| 0:56.2 | formula for dating and finding love? |
| 0:59.7 | I have to say I really feel like in many ways it's a missed opportunity. I feel like |
| 1:06.2 | this could be a fun way of finding someone you want to get to know a lot better |
| 1:11.0 | and even have a romantic relationship with. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm still kind of cringing over the whole fairy tale, |
| 1:19.1 | we're going to live happily ever after, kind of a deal. |
| 1:22.4 | But it is a fun watch I have to say I got way more into it than I |
| 1:27.3 | thought I was going to get into it. I feel like I would like to see this again, but with a woman choosing among men. |
| 1:37.1 | I really think that, I think part of the reason why I bristled so much at the bachelor was because it was very |
| 1:44.6 | traditional and so it's you know women all competing for a man so wouldn't it be nice to |
| 1:50.0 | have men competing for a woman. |
| 1:53.6 | And I hope that given the really good ratings |
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